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Where We've Been
Neotropolis in the desert, talks and booths on the road, and what's on the calendar next.
Timeline index
Metagame
November 6–8, 2026
Upcoming weekend at Lighthaven: board games, videogames, LARPs, and immersive play. We are planning what Alleycat brings to the floor.
Open Sauce
July 17–19, 2026
First booth for strangers who do not know Neotropolis: ~50,000 attendees, ~120 PDN MK II units, four FDN MK I demos, and one repeated question, "What am I looki…
Neotropolis
April 2026
205 PDN MK II units, FDN MK I nodes, Posse and Shootout, 4,149 Quickdraw matches, and 274 active players. Reggie Bloodletter won a third straight championship.
Hackaday Supercon
November 7–9, 2025
Elli Furedy's Sandbox Systems talk: emergent play, Conway's Game of Life, and cyberpunk bounty hunting with PDN MK II in the Mojave.
Neotropolis
April 2025
Wireless scoring went live, 200+ PDNs in the desert, 3,767 Quickdraw matches, and 328 active players. Reggie Bloodletter became Alleycat's first repeat champion…
Hackaday Supercon
November 1–3, 2024
Elli Furedy's lightning talk on building tech for Neotropolis: Data Crypt, Proto-PDN, and the first PDN MK I season in the Mojave.
Neotropolis
April 2024
Crisis build season, 64 PDN MK I units in the desert, ~100 players sharing gear, and the first year anyone broke 100 points, with Reggie and Detective one captu…
Neotropolis
April 2023
Proto-PDN goes digital with Quickdraw, the first player intake film, and 44 devices in the field after 2022 proved everyone wanted gear to carry.
Neotropolis
April 2022
Eight weeks to first Neo, analog Data Crypts, Polaroid bounty contracts, and 42 units in the field. Where Alleycat started.